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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2001-02-23 18:31:40 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2001-02-23 18:31:40 (GMT)
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Describe -s a little more generically.
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-rwxr-xr-xLib/test/regrtest.py11
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diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 5866d43..43e630e 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@ If no test names are given, all tests are run.
-v is incompatible with -g and does not compare test output files.
--s means to run only a single test and exit. This is useful when Purifying
-the Python interpreter. The file /tmp/pynexttest is read to find the next
-test to run. If this file is missing, the first test_*.py file in testdir or
-on the command line is used. (actually tempfile.gettempdir() is used instead
-of /tmp).
+-s means to run only a single test and exit. This is useful when doing memory
+analysis on the Python interpreter (which tend to consume to many resources to
+run the full regression test non-stop). The file /tmp/pynexttest is read to
+find the next test to run. If this file is missing, the first test_*.py file
+in testdir or on the command line is used. (actually tempfile.gettempdir() is
+used instead of /tmp).
"""